Half a year passes very quickly in the world of Mahara and it's time again for a release candidate (RC) as we are preparing for the release of Mahara 17.10. We have now release release candidate 1.

We invite you to take a close look at this pre-release version to test it thoroughly and report any bugs to us that you may come across so we can make the stable version a good one by getting rid of major issues before the release in the third or fourth week of October depending on how the testing goes.

If you have a test server or a developer instance, please do a test upgrade. While we test in different environments, we may not be able to catch all exceptions that you deal with. Therefore, your testing on your own infrastructure would be much appreciated. But please don't upgrade your production site just yet. ;-)

In case there are important bugs found that need fixing, we may produce a third release candidate. Otherwise, this release candidate will become the final 17.10.0 release.

You can use our developer instance http://master.dev.mahara.org to check out the new features of Mahara (that don't require site administrator access) if you can't install it yourself. This instance will be updated on 2 October 2017.